· Private foundation
Encourage Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $248k
- $250k+5 grants · $8.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC | $4,019,103 |
| CONNECTION FOR THE HOMELESS | $2,500,000 |
| LAKE WALES CARE CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE SERVICES INC | $882,500 |
| ST ALBAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $378,028 |
| ANCHOR HOUSE INC OF POLK COUNTY | $125,000 |
| DIOCESE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $123,308 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $883k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SUScripture Union2× · 2017–2018 · $126k · revenue +36%
- SFSOCIETY FOR KINGDOM LIVING2× · 2017–2018 · $110k · revenue +14% · 27% of their budget
- TMTHIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $105k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CENTRAL FLone grant, 2018 · $257k
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CENTRAL FLORIDAone grant, 2017 · $203k
- OCOFFICER'S CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP - WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGSone grant, 2017 · $35k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Support local churches, leaders, and christians from around the world through online content that strengthens and affirms their life in christ. committed to using every means possible to reach every age and life stage with the gospel…
To deliver the message of Jesus
Religious
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
A training ministry that equips the saints more focusing on preparing leaders and ministers of the word for the work of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.
Religious
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE INC OF POLK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Scripture Union ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR KINGDOM LIVING ↗
- Who funds THIRD MILLENNIUM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF THE CITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CS Lewis Institute ↗
- Who funds SHINING LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds AvSTEM Inc ↗
- Who funds OFFICERS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF THE UNITED ↗
- Who funds REVEL ↗
- Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds Seneca Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
- Who funds ARIEL A MINISTRY OF PROCLAMATION ↗
- Who funds HOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds RWANDA MINISTRY PARTNERS ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Encourage Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Encourage Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lake Wales Care Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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